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Dr Mridula Bandyopadhyay

BSc, MSc, CPS, MPhil, PhD

Team Investigator, COMPASS

Email: m.bandyopadhyay@latrobe.edu.au

Telephone: 03 8341 8576

Mridula is a demographer and an anthropologist with an interest in women’s health issues. She has worked in various Asia-Pacific countries on complex population health issues. She continues to work in the area of gender, reproductive health, reproductive rights, gender-based violence, health and development, and determinants of health.

She has been working with immigrant women’s health research in Australia for several years. She has also worked in comparative public and social policy, education and multi-media projects; and with the Australian Public Sector on primary health care and health services policy development. She joined MCHR in September 2007 under the COMPASS program to continue her work with immigrant and refugee women’s health.

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus; reproductive health and reproductive rights; sexual health; determinants of health; gender-based violence and health of immigrant and refugee women.

CURRENT PROJECTS

South Asian women’s experience of living with gestational diabetes mellitus
Team:	Mridula Bandyopadhyay, Rhonda Small, Jeremy Oats, Della Forster, Mary-Ann Davey, Amanda Aylward
Funding:	Faculty of Health Sciences Research Grant, La Trobe University
Status:	Analysis completed, paper being drafted.

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

Book and Book Chapter

Willis, K., Green, J., Daly, J., Williamson, L., Bandyopadhyay, M (2009). ‘Perils and possibilities: Achieving best evidence from focus groups in public health research’. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 33(2): 131-136

Bandyopadhyay M, MacPherson S. Women and Health: Tradition and Culture in Rural India. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Aldershot, UK (1998).

Bandyopadhyay M., Khan M R. Loss of face: Violence against women in South Asia. In Violence Against Women in Asian Societies, Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (ed.) p. 61-75. Routledge Curzon: London (2003).

Bandyopadhyay M: Women’s Mental Health in the Context of HIV/AIDS. In Mental Health Aspects of Reproductive Health: A Global Review of the Literature. Edited by Jane Fisher, Jill Astbury, Meena Cabral de Mello, Shekhar Saxena. Geneva: World Health Organization & United Nations Population Fund; 2009: 113-127

Articles in refereed journals

Saw Saw, Manderson, L., Bandyopadhyay, M., Than Tun Sein, Myo Myo Mon and Win Maung (2009). Public and/or private health care: Tuberculosis patients' perspectives in Myanmar. Health Research Policy and Systems, 7:19. doi:10.1186/1478-4505-7-19 (published 28 July)

Bandyopadhyay M. Impact of ritual pollution on lactation and breastfeeding practices in rural West Bengal, India. International Breastfeeding Journal, 4:2 (2009)

Daly J., Bandyopadhyay M., Riggs E., & Williamson L. Ethical review and the assessment of research proposals using qualitative research methods. Monash Bioethics Review, 27(3): 43-53 (2008)

Bandyopadhyay M, Markovic M, Manderson L. Women’s perspectives of pain following day surgery in Australia, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Jun-Aug 24(4): 19-23. (2007).

Markovic M, Bandyopadhyay M, Manderson L, Allotey P, Murray S, Vu T. Day surgery in Australia: Qualitative research report, Journal of Sociology, .40(1): 74-84 (2004).

Markovic M, Bandyopadhyay M, Nicolson S, Watson C. Immigrant women’s perspectives of shared antenatal care: Short report. Australian Family Physician, 32(8): 672 (2003).

Bandyopadhyay M. Missing girls and son preference in rural India: Looking beyond popular myth. Health Care for Women International, 24(10): 910-926 (2003).

Bandyopadhyay M, Thomas J. Women Migrant Worker’s Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Hong Kong. AIDS CARE, 14(4): 509-521(2002).

Markovic M, Bandyopadhyay M, Manderson L, Vu T. Gynaecological Day Surgery and Quality of Care. Australian Health Care Review, 25 (3): 40-47 (2002).

Thomas J, Bandyopadhyay M. Ethnic Minorities and their Vulnerability to AIDS in a Border State in India. AIDS Care, 11(1): 45-60 (1999).

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